Achieving Health Nigeria Initiative (AHNi) Ongoing Job Recruitment – Apply Here!

Achieving Health Nigeria Initiative (AHNi) is a non-profit organization that promotes socio-economic development by supporting global health and economic initiatives in Nigeria. AHNi currently has its headquarters in Abuja, Nigeria. We are recruiting to fill the position below:

 

 

 

 

Job Title: Consultant to Develop Draft Materials for Monitoring and Reporting Adverse COVID-related Events on the COVID-19 Response Mechanism (C19RM) Implementation
Location: Abuja
Supervisor: Senior Technical Advisor (STA)
Reporting line: The Consultant will report to the Senior Technical Advisor (STA)
Commencement Date: 24th July 2023
Duration: 20 Days

Background

• Achieving Health Nigeria Initiative (AHNi) aims to provide technical assistance to the government and people of Nigeria in the implementation of public health and development programs.
• AHNi implements projects in HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis, malaria, health systems strengthening, sexual and reproductive health/family planning and humanitarian projects for internally displaced persons (IDPs) and refugees in protection, health, and nutrition.
• AHNi also offers technical assistance and service delivery in integrated maternal, neonatal and child health (IMNCH), monitoring and evaluation (M&E), laboratory support, behavior change communication (BCC), policy and legislation, gender/key populations, public-private partnership (PPP), and grants management.
• The Global Fund C19RM is designed to respond to COVID-19 in three ways: COVID-19 control and containment interventions, including personal protective equipment (“PPE”), diagnostics, treatment, communications, and other public measures.
• COVID-19-related risk mitigation measures for HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria programs including, but not limited to, support for COVID-19 interventions needed to safely implement campaigns, community and health facility-level HIV, tuberculosis, and malaria programs; and Expanded reinforcement of key aspects of health systems, such as laboratory networks, supply chains, and community-led response systems to address advocacy, services, accountability, and human-rights-based approaches.
• Hence, the consultant will support the development of draft materials/tools for monitoring adverse COVID-related events on the COVID-19 Response Mechanism (C19RM) Implementation.

Key roles
The services of the Consultant working with the C19RM team will include but not limited to the following:

• Develop draft materials (SOP, IEC, Job Aids) for monitoring and reporting adverse COVID-related events following vaccination across GF-supported facilities.
• Facilitate a meeting of stakeholders to review and finalize draft tools for monitoring and reporting adverse COVID-related events.
• Support facilitation of trainings on deployment and use of tools for monitoring and reporting adverse COVID-related events across 4 selected states.

• Coordinate activities with other technical team members on the project.
• Support writing and editing of technical reports, documents, and other knowledge management products. S/He will also assist with publications, research data collection and processing, and presentations.

Requirements

• Relevant University Degree in Medicine, Public Health or other related Life-Science field / programs
• Possession of a postgraduate Degree (M.Sc, MPH, PhD) in Public Health, Epidemiology, Infectious disease.
• Minimum of at least five (5) years in public health and/ or communicable disease control including COVID-19 and other vaccine-preventable diseases (at least one year)
• Proven experience in facilitating technical trainings is required.
• Excellent ability to communicate and maintain productive relations with the team; resourcefulness, flexibility, and ability to work in a fast changing and challenging environment.

To Apply
Interested and qualified candidates should forward their Suitability Statement (Application) and Resume (CV) as a single MS Word document to: [email protected] using the Job Title and Location as the subject of the email.

Application Deadline: 18th July, 2023.

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Note: Only Applications submitted electronically, with subject bearing the position of interest will be treated.